The liturgist and the theater buff

This Monday in January, the atmosphere is calm at the French Radio-Television Committee (CFRT), rue de la Glacière in Paris, where the Jour du Seigneur team and studio are located. The team that worked on the televised mass the day before is on rest, some of the employees working from home, the control room turned off. We ask if it is possible to open it for photos. The producer, brother Thierry Hubert, a man of contagious joy, seems stressed, while Catherine Pic, in charge of television liturgy, has to send text messages to a director. They are already on the go for a next show and are preparing to leave in a few days on a shoot. Never mind, this Dominican and this 62-year-old laywoman, mother and eleven times grandmother, take the time to answer my questions. The liturgy, Catherine Pic fell into it while doing catechesis in Seine-et-Marne with Father Dominique Lebrun, who has since become Archbishop of Rouen. “He allowed me to enter into the intelligence of the liturgy and gave me a taste for it”, she comments. Today, in addition to televised masses, she is a lecturer at the Catholic Institute in Paris. Brother Thierry Hubert came to the audiovisual sector as a producer in 2018 “out of obedience”. But we can’t help but see bridges between his passion for theater and the small screen. This 52-year-old man from Rennes, a former mathematics teacher, entered the Dominican order twenty years ago, “probably worked by the Word”. The one that particularly speaks to him is: “Jesus loved them to the end” (Jn 13:1), “that is to say, to the end”.